Adaptive Caching by Refetching

Part of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 15 (NIPS 2002)

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Authors

Robert B. Gramacy, Manfred K. K. Warmuth, Scott Brandt, Ismail Ari

Abstract

We are constructing caching policies that have 13-20% lower miss rates than the best of twelve baseline policies over a large variety of request streams. This represents an improvement of 49–63% over Least Recently Used, the most commonly implemented policy. We achieve this not by designing a specific new policy but by using on-line Machine Learning algorithms to dynamically shift between the standard policies based on their observed miss rates. A thorough experimental evaluation of our techniques is given, as well as a discussion of what makes caching an interesting on-line learning problem.